A Qualitative Investigation of CLEAT Participants

NCT05937542 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: 330860
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 20
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

As the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) waiting list soars above seven million people, with treatment wait times over two years, older people with chronic conditions face worsening symptoms, increased use of medications, more complicated surgeries with slower recovery, reduced quality of life, and loss of independence. As part of its plans to tackle this crisis, the NHS promotes exercise as a "miracle cure" for arresting the progress of disease and helping disease management and recovery. However, current plans promoting individual, home-based exercise, as well as on-site hospital-based programs of delivery, have met with only limited success, and face problems of decreased space, capacity, clinician time, as well as lack of knowledge and expertise with regard to effective behavior change. We have developed a community-based group exercise programme for older people with hip osteoarthritis. This community-based group exercise programme has successfully helped those with hip osteoarthritis (3.5 million over 45s in the UK) reduce pain and need for medication, as well as avoiding surgery, and has formed part of an NIHR trial examining the use of exercise and education versus standard physiotherapy care for the treatment of hip osteoarthritis. In order to better understand the mechanisms of action of this programme, the present study will examine, via focus groups interviews, the experiences of participants who have undertaken the exercise and education programme. The data generated from the focus groups will help to elucidate what "works" within the programme and will help inform future development of resources to support health professionals in providing exercise rehabilitation for older people with chronic conditions.

Conditions

Osteoarthritis

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Participant Experiences

  Participant experiences generated via qualitative data

  One data collection point via interview (3-6 months)

Interventions

Qualitative Investigation of Participant Experiences BEHAVIORAL

There is no intervention. This is a retrospective qualitative study.

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 45 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Participants who had previously been part of the NIHR-funded trial into the effects of a cycling and educational intervention for people with hip osteoarthritis.

You may qualify if:

• Participants who had previously been part of the NIHR-funded CLEAT trial. Those participants were defined as follows:
• Diagnosed with osteoarthritis of the hip as per NICE criteria.
• Male and female, aged 45 years and over
• Meeting the GP criteria for exercise referral
• Capable of giving informed consent
• Be able to understand English as necessary to benefit from the intervention, in the investigators' opinion.

You may not qualify if:

• Anyone not previously part of the NIHR-funded CLEAT trial. -

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Bournemouth University: lead
• Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Bournemouth University

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Osteoarthritis

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Arthritis; Joint Diseases; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Rheumatic Diseases

Study Officials

• Tim Rees, PhD

  Professor in Sport

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Central Study Contacts

Tim Rees, PhD

CONTACT

+441202961200; trees@bournemouth.ac.uk

Suzy Wignall

CONTACT

+441202961200; clinicalresearch@bournemouth.ac.uk

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: CASE ONLY
• Time Perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 27, 2023
• First Posted: July 10, 2023
• Study Start: September 5, 2023
• Primary Completion: December 1, 2024
• Study Completion: December 1, 2024
• Last Updated: August 12, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-01

Locations

GB (1)